Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Time: September 21, 2012 to September 23, 2012
Location: Caribe Royale
Street: 8101 World Center Drive
City/Town: Orlando, FL
Website or Map: http://summit.opensuse.org/
Event Type: conference
Organized By: OpenSUSE dot org
Latest Activity: Sep 19, 2012
The openSUSE Summit brings together a wide variety of Open Source contributors to collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution projects. In three exciting days of workshops and social happenings we bring alive the openSUSE slogan "Have a lot of fun".
The Summit takes place September 21-23 followingSUSEcon , our main sponsors' yearly conference. Registrations finalized before September 15 include free admission to the final day of SUSECon.
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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